Rogue wave hits cruise ship
Strange News Sunday, August 22nd, 2010
Two people were killed and six other injured on March 3, 2010 when at least two rogue waves struck a cruise ship carrying passengers in the Mediterranean.
This from Wikipedia:
Rogue waves (also known as freak waves, monster waves, killer waves, and extreme waves) are relatively large and spontaneous ocean surface waves that are a threat even to large ships and ocean liners.[1] In oceanography, they are more precisely defined as waves whose height is more than twice the significant wave height (SWH), which is itself defined as the mean of the largest third of waves in a wave record. Therefore rogue waves are not necessarily the biggest waves found at sea; they are, rather, surprisingly large waves for a given sea state. “Rogue waves are not tsunamis, which are set in motion by earthquakes [and] travel at high speed, building up as they approach the shore. Rogue waves seem to occur in deep water or where a number of physical factors such as strong winds and fast currents converge. This may have a focusing effect, which can cause a number of waves to join together.
A Google search yields a wealth of information about rogue waves, which have also been studied by scientists around the world.
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